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hide-and-go-seek


A game of hide-and-seek: Let's play hide-and-go-seek: you all hide and I'll be up. Compare hide-and-seek, hidey, hidey-go-seek.

Contributor's comments: When I played hide and go seek in S.E. Qld I was in not up.

Contributor's comments: Known as 'hide and go seek' on King Island.

Contributor's comments: I remember hearing "hide-and-go-seek" as a child in Sydney, but it was more commonly called the shorter "hide-and-seek".

Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] When I was a lad it was called hide-and-seek. Hide-and-go-seek was only heard in American TV shows. We never had up either, the searcher was he.

Contributor's comments: As a kid at primary school in the fifties, we called it 'Hidey-go-seek' That was in the New England area of New South Wales.